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roaring
[ rawr-ing, rohr- ]
noun
- the act of a person, animal, or thing that roars.
- a loud, deep cry or sound or a series of such sounds.
- Veterinary Pathology. a disease of horses, caused by respiratory obstruction or vocal cord paralysis, and characterized by loud or rough breathing sounds.
adjective
- making or causing a roar, as an animal or thunder.
- brisk or highly successful, as trade:
He did a roaring business selling watches to tourists.
- characterized by noisy, disorderly behavior; boisterous; riotous:
roaring revelry.
- complete; utter; out-and-out:
a roaring idiot; a roaring success.
adverb
- very; extremely:
roaring drunk.
roaring
/ ˈɔːɪŋ /
adjective
- informal.very brisk and profitable (esp in the phrase a roaring trade )
- the roaring daysthe period of the Australian goldrushes
- derogatory.(intensifier)
a roaring communist
adverb
- noisily or boisterously (esp in the phrase roaring drunk )
noun
- a loud prolonged cry
- a debilitating breathing defect of horses characterized by rasping sounds with each breath: caused by inflammation of the respiratory tract or obstruction of the larynx Compare whistling
Derived Forms
- ˈDzԲ, adverb
Other Word Forms
- DziԲ· adverb
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
But none would be as likely to come roaring back as measles, far and away the most infectious of the bunch.
"My emotions came out, I was roaring like a lion," Whittaker said when asked about the incident on Sky Sports.
When he announced them, he said they would bring “jobs and factories ... roaring back into our country” — despite skepticism from economists across the political spectrum.
“Jobs and factories,” he has promised, “will come roaring back into our country.”
Trump said: Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country…We will supercharge our domestic industrial base.
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